Introduction - About Wakose

What skills do you wish you had learned in school? This question was the seed that gave life to what we now call Wakose Academy. In 2011, we saw a gap between the skills learned in school and the skills needed to succeed in life. In order for our nation to move forward, we can no longer afford to have graduates that can balance an algebraic equation but cannot balance their cheque books, engineers that can prove the laws of thermodynamics but cannot change the oil in a car, masters of academia that live like slaves to the vicissitudes of life.
Wakose first set out to build a school like no other, a school that focused on "life skills", toolkits needed to succeed in life like leadership and other hands-on practical skills, instead of focusing solely on "school skills" like following instructions, building short term memory and logic. After completing feasibility studies to see what it would take to build such a school in 2012, the resources to build the school were beyond our reach at the time.
It was at this time that Wakose Academy took the step that set it on a path to where we are today.
We asked a different question. What can WE do NOW to build and teach the skills we wished we had learned in school? This new question was a radical shift from the first question in that it had two key elements that you will encounter here at Wakose, a sense of urgency and self-sufficiency.
What is a school? A place where learning occurs? If school is a place where learning occurs, then the lack of our own physical structure should not stop school/learning from happening. Our current model is to connect learners with instructors and finding them a suitable location.
Whenever there's an urge to learn a skill and someone available to teach that skill, we believe learning should occur. In a broader sense, our biggest resource in Nigeria is us, the people of Nigeria and for this country to achieve the greatness we all know we are capable of, we need to learn more practical skills so we can give more.
Wakose Academy is here to help you help the people of Nigeria find and achieve their greatness. As you lead others in this path to greatness, you will inevitably achieve greatness too. This is what Wakose is about. We learn, we teach, we share, we ask for help, we build, we connect, we act, and we have fun.